Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 're on hand to lend a hand in the air pistol shooting gallery . |
| 2 | I am under notice to find a suitably uplifting ending for our movie . |
| 3 | Plans are under way to develop a package of special ‘ top up ’ courses in time for the 1994/95 academic year . |
| 4 | Most significantly , perhaps , given the very deep commitment here to social justice and equality , moves are under way to establish a modern Socialist party . |
| 5 | Negotiations are under way to meet a number of other requests from academic staff . |
| 6 | Procedures are under way to find a successor to Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . |
| 7 | Talks are under way to find a home of their choice for the 20 residents . |
| 8 | Plans are under way to have a Fun Day around about mid-summers day — based in the hall there will be day-time attractions and a Bar-B-Que and dance in the evening . |
| 9 | BRITAIN 'S new racing chiefs are under pressure to order a fresh probe into who really was to blame for the Grand National fiasco . |
| 10 | BRITAIN 'S new racing chiefs are under pressure to order a fresh probe into who really was to blame for the Grand National fiasco . |
| 11 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 12 | At Amsteg motorists who are in haste to reach a further destination have an opportunity to leave the old Gotthard road in favour of entry to the fast N2 motorway before the old road enters the steepest and most tortuous part of the route . |
| 13 | ENGLAND , who stand between Scotland and a Triple Crown triumph , are in line to pay a surprise visit to Murrayfield . |
| 14 | ‘ We are in business to make a profit and we can not do that with so few passengers . ’ |
| 15 | We are not in business to make a profit ; we are in business to run a quality programme which puts the needs of our clients as our first priority . |
| 16 | The top floor , closest to the glazed roof section , also suffered from heat gain during the July and August heatwave — plans are in hand to install a brise-soleil and possibly a local air-conditioning system . |
| 17 | ‘ the clearest and simplest remedy for this evil of litigation about charity , by which so often the kindly intention of a testator is defeated , and still more often a considerable part of the benefaction is wasted in legal costs , would be for Parliament to enact a modern definition or classification of charities on some broad lines . |
| 18 | Any 8-bit microprocessor will work , since no multiplication or division is necessary in the software , although it would be of advantage to use a 16-bit device to do the scaling of signals internally . |
| 19 | Minsky and Papert studied in some detail how elaborate a perceptron must be in order to recognise a particular class . |
| 20 | If so , you could be in line to win a place on a 10-month MBA course at INSEAD , courtesy of Arthur Andersen and Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 21 | And so I would say that the whole thing , the figures that I 'm proposing , er and the consequences for both Leeds and Bradford er would be in fact to maintain a balanced strategy for urban regeneration . |
| 22 | 14.2 Should the Proprietor be unable or unwilling to produce a sequel work within a reasonable period of time the Publisher shall be at liberty to commission a sequel from a third party . |
| 23 | Powerful forces must be at work to overcome a differential of this size . |
| 24 | TWO computer game-crazy brothers are on course to make a fortune after becoming Britain 's youngest national magazine editors . |
| 25 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 26 | That possibility might arise if a plaintiff were at liberty to make a claim against a number of defendants with the sole object of ousting the jurisdiction of the courts of the state where one of the defendants is domiciled . |
| 27 | During his cross examination on Wednesday Lord Silsoe reminded the hearing that the inspectors were at liberty to recommend a route other than the five put forward by the NGC . |
| 28 | All that remains is for Zenith to make a stuff of this one as well . |
| 29 | A follow-on project is under way to develop a new version , CLE-2 , having capabilities for reasoning and for co-operative response . |
| 30 | A plan is under way to build a new YMCA home on Melland Street , near the landscaping area . |